Naturally Wrong, Unnaturally Right
By: Blesson (September 9th, 2008)
Every morning I approach the news papers with the fear of getting de-sensitized. Today for instance, The Times of India, Ahmedabad Edition carried news about an act of unnatural proportions – Man having sex with a calf! The matter was brought in to light due to the animal protection activists you may read the entire article here.
Thank God, there are at least some people in the society (People for Animal) who think that there is something called as evil / wrong and the matter was brought to light. A voiceless animal found some one who could fight for its cause; unfortunately our big mouthed society has none!
Moreover, it is shocking to see how Times has written the news, with the reference of union health minister Ramadoss’ efforts to remove the section 377 relating to unnatural sexual intercourse. Simply put the law reads as under :
Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature, with any man, woman or animal shall be punishable with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine.
Now if you read this law without any prejudice, it is plain and clear, that to live in a society we must define the lines. We must define what is wrong and what is right. No matter even if the majority of the society accepts the wrong as right, it does not deter or change what is right. If there exists anything called RIGHT.
I am infact suffering and am unable to remove from my mind, the agony and pain that gripped my mind just a few days back when a report about a six month old girl appeared in the same newspaper. Left with a torn vagina and bleeding anus, the six month old innocent baby, was picked from her mother’s side, while asleep…!! Can you picture that !! Do the howls and tear filled screams wake us up?!!
Children are the future of our society, what we do to them, decides the future and the longetivity of our society. It’s painful and pathetic to know, what unbridled thoughts and desires in humans can lead people into? With the constant bombardment of media with sexually explicit material, lower moral convictions, pluralistic worldview and the popular culture which promotes “it is all about me”, it doesn’t take a lot of pains & brains to understand the surge in the unnatural drives among people in a society.
When you begin to take fences off, you will ultimately be left with the walls of your house to take the brunt of the attacks; and attacks will surely come to finally crumble the house, the pleasure of which you had in mind and for which you ultimately took the fences off.
I know most of us have been imprinted & impressed by the image and majesty of the Gay Prince of India, the poster boy for Times of India. With Times’ level & taste for photography, it would have been really amateurish, if they had put up the prince in the homosexual act itself – Lest some people would have an understanding of what the term “unnatural” and “disgustful” means. So much coverage, so much of support & glitter added to an equally contemptible act to make it look like normal and desirable.
To justify evil deeds and desires people in the society have borrowed the word “freedom”, which appeals to all and is likened by all. Look around and you will be stunned to see, what all is traded in disguise of freedom and with its tag attached. Accepting a moral absolute demands that we live our life in conformance to the standards required by the moral absolute, which in fact the pluralistic society finds hard to live by and hence to support its baser instincts it ends up and sometimes is coerced in to supporting the denial of absolutes and thereby propagates evil.
In the name of freedom, people in the society propagate and are promoting others to pull walls and fences down, which have been holding the society all these years. The term Gay was not well known in our society and culture, although I agree that it was all hidden under the covers. However that should not be made the reason for baser instincts to be promoted and propagated ! People say lets talk about it in the open, lets discuss it, lets bring it out and be honest about it, but it doesn’t mean that accepting that there is this evil in the society equals standing with it, promoting it or propagating it or infact putting it up as if its right or a matter of choice of ones freedom.
Evil is evil and we must all stand up and raise our voices. You would hear a whole lot of people trying to blame it all on the genes and would try to give you explanations on how some people are born with that bent. But does it mean that we should freely allow this in our society. Does it mean people in the psychiatric wards be let loose to do what ever they want to? Don’t we try to discipline them? Don’t we try to train and teach them to get them back in to the society? Does that mean that we stop telling them when they commit wrong or put up barrier to ensure corrective behavior? Does it mean we justify everything that they do? I am sure it is just a matter of some time, people will fly in a professor from any corner of the world to justify their deeds and to blame it all on the genes, be it murder, rape, sodomy or any kind of evil. Will that mean our laws will all have to be changed to continue to accommodate all the research? Will that mean as our society grows with knowledge on issues it will slowly accept evil and reject truth? The prisons will soon be empty, there will be no right or wrong and each one will do what they like and be free ….What lies ahead is literally fearful!
By embracing pluralism we have started redefining terms, our children are being taught and educated as moral zombies, who have no clear understanding about truth, right and good or even if such things exist, leave alone on how to make decisions. Televisions are full of soaps where relationships are entangled, media is portraying the wrongs of crooked minded people as fashion and high flying societies desirable lifestyles, Spiritualism and religion is godless and is all centered about the individuals happiness, fitness and joy. We surely are not laying a good foundation by treating wrongs and evils as accepted and normal for the coming generation and are offering them a tremendously morally decaying, foundationless environment, and we shouldn’t expect miracles to happen.
Its heart rending to see the moral, spiritual and cultural situation of our society which is very quickly gaining grounds and popularity, where morality is completely jettisoned and freedom has taken complete priority over right and wrong. In fact it seems today that the only moral right that is left or which exists is the moral right of freedom. However society forgets that this is a mere illusion, as there doesn’t exist a thing called absolute freedom, it’s a contradiction in terms like the term free love – as it’s the nature of love to bind itself.
Insanity is the ultimate form of absolute freedom and by rejecting truth and accepting a pluralistic worldview, the road that’s taken up by the society has started showing us glimpses of where we are heading.
Ps: This is not a hate mail against Gays; I believe like every human, they have the right to live. But there needs to be a clear distinction between society’s help, support and acceptance and what it applauds, approves or celebrates.
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